据普氏能源资讯6月9日艾伯塔省卡纳纳斯基斯报道,行业官员8日晚些时候在加拿大艾伯塔省卡纳纳斯基斯举行的CERI 2015石油化工会议上表示,由于天然气液体(NGL)产量在2020年前预计将增加大约23%以及国内来自艾伯塔省油砂行业的需求放缓,加拿大西部的NGL生产商将积极在亚洲寻求NGL出口机会。
加拿大天然气处理管理公司的一名负责人格里·古比在会上说,加拿大西部沉积盆地(WCSB)目前的NGL日产量估计在65万桶,但是,这个日产量在今后5年里将增加近15万桶。
中游参与者ATCO能源解决方案公司负责销售的副总裁在同一个会议上说,预计2020年NGL产量可能进一步日增37万桶,NGL日产量到2020年以后预计达到117万桶。
古比说,在普遍预期不久将在邻近BC省起飞的液化天然气出口工业的支持下,NGL产量增加的主要驱动力将是更高的采收率,这是因为生产商将在位于WCSB的Duvernay和Montney远景区继续钻井。
随着油砂日产量达到230万桶,艾伯塔省的生产商们现在每天使用来自美国和WCSB的50万至60万桶NGL作为稀释剂。
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原文如下:
Canadian NGL producers to seek markets in Asia amid higher output, weak local demand
Kananaskis, Alberta (Platts)--9Jun2015
Western Canadian NGL producers will actively seek export opportunities in Asia, as output is projected to increase around 23% by 2020 and domestic demand from Alberta's oil sands sector slows down, industry officials said late Monday.
Current NGL output in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, or WCSB, is estimated to be 650,000 b/d, but that will grow by nearly 150,000 b/d in the coming five years, Gerry Goobie, a principal with Gas Processing Management Inc., said at the CERI 2015 Petrochemical Conference in Kananaskis, Alberta.
The projected 2020 NGL output could increase further by another 370,000 b/d and reach 1.17 million b/d a decade later, Matt Miceli, vice president of sales with midstream player ATCO Energy Solutions, said at the same event.
Prime driver for that increase will be higher recovery rates with producers continuing to drill in the Duvernay and Montney plays in the WCSB, on the back of an LNG export industry that is widely expected to take off soon in neighboring British Columbia, Goobie said.
With oil sands output of 2.3 million b/d, Alberta's producers now source 500,000 b/d to 600,000 b/d of NGL from the US and WCSB for use as diluents.